The music of Big Star and the Grateful Dead will be celebrated in the coming months at the Germantown Performing Arts Center.

Born in Detroit in 1952, Don Fagenson has spent a lifetime making music in one way or another. Bass player. Band member. Album producer. Record label president. You probably know him as Don Was.

Fred took up the bass, musician brothers Cal and Cliff played guitar, and little Rose sang lead; Don and youngest Henry joined the group later, on fiddle and mandolin. In 1939 they drove their ...

Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble will perform the Grateful Dead's "Blues for Allah" on Jan. 23. The music of Big Star and the Grateful Dead will be celebrated in the coming months at the ...